Semiconductor Physics Group

Research

Here are some of the areas in which research is currently being carried out within the Semiconductor Physics Group:

• 2D transport
  • Coupled electron or hole gases (2D-2D and 1D-2D tunnelling, drag, Coulomb gap, etc)
• 1D transport
  • Spin-charge separation in quantum wires
  • Formation of electron lattices in weakly confined quantum wires
• Carbon
  • Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) of graphene
  • Graphene quantum dots
• Surface acoustic waves (SAWs)
  • Quantised charge transport
  • Quantum computing
• Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)
  • Regrowth
• Terahertz research
  • Terahertz quantum cascade lasers
• Quantum optics
  • Self-assembled quantum dots
  • Solid-state photonic interfaces based on single quantum dots and quantum dot molecules

Fundamentals of low-dimensional semiconductor systems

• Introduction
  • Introduction to low-dimensional systems
  • Electrons in few dimensions
  • Low-dimensional electron systems in a perpendicular magnetic field
• 2D transport
  • Integer quantum Hall effect
  • Fractional quantum Hall effect
• 1D transport
  • Ballistic transport
• 0D transport
  • Coulomb blockade
  • Antidots
• Surface acoustic waves (SAWs)
• Low-temperature scanning probes